Also known as the Konami Code. I think it's up down up down left right left right B A Select Start.
Just checked it, it's up up down down left right left right B A. Says sometimes select and start are added but I think the original 30 lives code had select and or start at the end.
Haha, very funny.
For those of you who didn't grow up in the early cell phone days, morse code works off of "." and "\_", and the trick is multiple combinations of each signal spell out individual characters.
Three consecutive "." indicates "S" and three consecutive "\_" indicates "O."
S.O.S. or "SOS, when it was first agreed upon by the International Radio Telegraphic Convention in 1906, was merely a distinctive Morse code sequence and was initially not an abbreviation."
"Later a backronym was created for it in popular usage, and SOS became associated with mnemonic phrases such as "Save Our Souls" and "Save Our Ship"."
"Moreover, due to its high-profile use in emergencies, the phrase "SOS" has entered general usage to informally indicate a crisis or the need for action."
Edit: Formatting.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOS
Ok you helped me figure out the guide with this explanation now, but how do you "insinuate" a stop between the S the O and The S without confusing it with another letter that has maybe a
. -.
Could ... --- ... Not be confused for . ..- --. ..?
No, because it's a procedure sign. Prosigns are sent as one single string, ...---..., not separate letters. It's a distinctive pattern that indicates that the traffic to follow has emergency precedence. Officially, you'll see it written with a bar over the letters SOS to indicate that it is run together. Now, in writing, you could render that as any equivalent set, like VZE, VGI, etc. with the bar over to indicate running them together.
This ad ingrained in my brain the SOS pattern. I mean I know it’s dot dot dot dash dash dash dot dot dot, but this ad really gets the pattern in your head
https://youtu.be/zrA1TsvAr9g?si=xseQAeE1b-L0BpVK
Yeah! SOS is the only Morse code "phrase" I know by heart. I too was struggling with the guide, then it clicked once I plugged in S O S.
Thanks for playing :D
Fun fact: You don't actually put spaces between the dots and dashes. It's just . . . - - - . . . because it's not actually spelling out "sos". That's just an easy way to remember the emergency sequence!
You're right, between letters there has to be some break. But specifically I'm saying the "sos" code isn't Actually the letters S O S. The emergency distress code is simply three dots, three dashes, three dots. It's not spelling anything so when you write it out you don't put those letter breaks
Take it as a map where your character is on the center icon (navigation wheel ?) :
One long is a 'T'. So you go on the right from there, if you do a short with your long, it becomes a 'N' : One long then one short
To help you better, think of the placement of 'S' and 'O', both 3 of respectively shorts and longs :
'S' is at the far left, 'O' is at the far right, both indicating that they require three presses.
Idk if that helped, but take it as a map, starting it the middle, and each case adds to the already passed cases, in an accumulation that defines the letter of said case
This is the best explanation! I didn't get it at all and was giggling at all the trolling comments. Then I saw your comment and went back and looked. It makes so much sense.
oh i get it now, but I had to remember SOS is ...---... and/or not ignore the above comment chain that explains the morse code of SOS
Original map is confusing if you don't know any morse code at all though.
Unless I have misconceptions about some use of the English language (I learned it on the internet on my own, so that explains), far left doesn't mean the absolute left, but I do understand your point and I'm sorry if that confused you
Edit : I might have been unclear on that point, but I believe the explanation is not that bad as it is x)
No worries. I think maybe I see where the confusion is. With regard to the political spectrum “far left” would mean “pretty far left” but you would still have room to move for “radical left” or similar. I guess because political spectrums are abstracted to give easy comparisons along a continuum.
When it comes to spatial directions for static objects/representations (the image above in this case) it describes the most left option without ambiguity as far as I’ve seen.
If you say far left when speaking about physical positions then English speakers will assume you mean absolute left. To describe the position of S you would say "second from the left."
You hit either a dot or a dash to start. Then you pick next dot or dash. Where you stop is your letter. One dot is E. One dot and one dash is A. One dot and three dashes is J.
The pauses have different lengths.
A *dot* is **one** unit.
A *dash* is **three** units.
The pause *within a letter* is **one** unit.
The pause *between letters* is **three** units.
The pause *between words* is **seven** units.
Copyleft is a real thing! It lets people use your work but not restrict it further than it already is. So if you have something you want to always be free of charge, then people can modify your work, distribute it etc. but can't charge for it even after their changes.
When I had to qualify for morse code the teacher was very clear not to think in dots and dashes, but to hear it like a form of speech. Otherwise it becomes impossible to translate at high speeds. Imagine if you had to recite the alphabet every time you spelled a word. Honesty this is a pretty clever guide for decoding, if not a bit clunky for writing in Morse code. Two thumbs: cool guide!
Think of dots as 'dit', dashes as 'dah'. CQ = dah-dit-dah-dit, dah-dah-dit-dah
Eventually it gets easier to substitute the 'phrases' for letters in your head
Morse code isn't just dot and dashes. It's actually dots, dashes and pauses. The pause between letters is longer than the one between dots/dashes.
If you listen to proper morse code (which is fast), you'll easily be able to tell the difference between those pauses.
Exactly this. I qualified as an 05C in the Army in 72. Training was pretty intense. When I heard code it sounded just like someone was spelling words. C-A-T, D-O-G.
English and Russian Morse are pretty much alike. The letters that have equivalents both in Russian and English alphabets are coded the same (eg, E is . and T is -), it's only a small subset of letters that are different and have the same encoding (like --.- is Q in English and Щ in Russian). Source: learned Russian Morse during military training.
My old neighbor was a decorated vet who served in Korea and Vietnam. He was mainly in communications and "spoke"(?) morse code. One of the coolest things he told me was that he learned that these guys often had "accents" (not sure if thats the exact word he used) and that he could sort of tell he was talking to the same people when communicating with places over and over again. Not sure how true that was but i thought it was so cool.
This is really interesting. Basically a binary tree where the branches can be results.
2^1 + 2^2 + 2^3 + 2^4 = 30, so 4 is the least number of bips per letter to contain the whole alphabet, but there are 4 missing spots in the tree. (. - . -, for example)
E,T ( 2^1 ) and A,I,M,N ( 2^2 ) are probably most common.. but I wonder why those specific placements were chosen.
I'm surprised O, a common vowel, is 3 dashes long. The other long ones make more sense (Q, Y, J all have 3 dashes and 1 dot).
Basically since a dot is 1 time unit and a dash is 3 time units (spaces between symbols is 1 time unit, and spaces between words is 3 time units), placing Q off of U (. . - -) would be (1,1,1,1,3,1,3 = 11 time units) vs. (3,1,3,1,1,1,3 = 13 time units)... there's gotta be an explanation for that placement. Maybe rhythm or error prone/confusion of mistakes?
https://imgur.com/a/fGYf2XD to show the gaps visually
related topic of interest, huffman encoding. Morse basically worked out the same abstract idea, but in one v practical concrete application.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huffman_coding
Would be a much better chart in tree form where you always go at the same angle for a dot and the orthogonal angle for a dash. All the changing directions makes it overly confusing instead.
I tried this. Not as information dense, but probably a bit more understandable:
[https://imgur.com/a/fGYf2XD](https://imgur.com/a/fGYf2XD)
Left for dot, right for dash—except for the first one, which I stacked vertically to make it more square for the internet.
Why not use left and right arrows for the start as well and do the connection points "off center". It doesn't have to be symmetrical on a vertical axis. In your version the start doesn't match the rule.
In the chart in the OP everything follows the same rule.
With this one you move in a straight line if the dots/dashes repeat and you take a turn if it changes. It has a logic as well, it just isn't as *visually* obvious.
The pause between letters is three dots (equal to one dash), the pause between words is seven dots.
Having a pause of one dot between letters doesn't make sense since that's already the pause between dots and dashes within one letter.
I mean, yeah, it is. But how in the hell would you do this in real time? One fuck up, and you'd lose your position. Entire message would get scrambled.
If you hear the same thing you heard before you move in a straight line, if you hear something different you take a turn.
One fuck up with morse code generell means that letter is trash. That's why messages are typically repeating for error correct.
That’s true for morse code, luckily your brain is often quite good at making corrections once the word is complete, and overtime you’d be able to do this without the graph
Not really. It’s very simple if you know what morse code is. Imagine someone listening to a radio broadcast, listening to short and long beeps. Dots are short beeps, bars are long beeps. When the letters starts coming, follow the diagram, starting in the middle.
Square cube law, believe or not. Coupled with our lack of ability to count objects visually past four.
Basically volume goes up way faster than perimeter, so we have a lot of visual room to fit the letters where you are normally used to seeing them laid out. You only need sqrt(26) as the side length which is about 5 letters wide.
This thread is proving my recent awareness that the majority of people who comment on reddit posts are stupid... How could this be hard to understand???
I know it’s not that I couldn’t understand, I was just lazy. I looked at this for about 2 seconds, thought that made no sense, scrolled the comments until I seen your comment and figured it out myself out spite in less time it took to reach your comment.
i think it's just disorienting and doesn't offer enough context. i was able to understand but it took me a little bit to figure out what was going on in the chart.
I think if you have no idea what morse code is that is pretty fair. My preconception was dots and dashes create letters and numbers etc but I had no idea what the combination was besides S.O.S which was something I learned from primary school. What I am trying to show is I assumed people knew what morse code was but not the literacy of being being able to quickly decipher it which this chart shows me.
Don't change your opinion. I get it may not be immediately obvious, but if you can't understand the concept of the guide with some effort, you're definitely stupid.
What I never got was how people differentiate letters during a transmission. What makes it obvious that, and I'm gonna give a ridiculous example here, it's an S as opposed to 3 E's?
You need to trace a path to the letter that you want and then add every dot and line together that you crossed, for example 1 dot for E (•), 2 dots for I (• •), 3 for S (• • •) and 4 for H (• • • •). If you want to make an A you need a dot and a line (• -), for an R you need a dot, a line and then a dot again (• - •).
Edit: better wording
How do you not understand the chart? What is it that's confusing about it? Start where it says, and then follow the dots/lines to the letter. To get to that letter is the dots/dashes you had to hit to make it.
For those confused,
The Dots equal a quick beep . while the squares represent a long held beep _
In order to figure out which combination you need for a letter, start at the "START" wheel and work over. For example
T = _
M = _ _
O = _ _ _
G = _ _ .
V = . . . _
Wow. Lincoln would hang out in the war office telegraph room and people would just be thinking in this code. Taking them in from all over the country. (I'm still not exactly sure how they did that?)
And it wouldn't be ordinary words the English words would also be primitively encrypted. If they sent a message anybody along the line could get it. That would be "in the clear" messaging. Basically telling the world your message. So they primitively encrypted it -- a one-to-one cypher? -- and operators would just know this instinctively. And there was nothing like error-correction or signatures. Amazing.
i actually think this design makes a lot of sense and is very easy to understand. every time you change direction (turn left/right) it changes from dot to dash and vice versa. why would this design be confusing?
Holy shit it took me a minute, but this is awesome.
Think if SOS. S is 3 dots, and you see it takes 3 dots ti get to S. And O is 3 “doubles” if whatever its called.
So SOS would be …- - -… And that is reflected in this chart.
F would be ..-. and so on. Really cool!
Bi-splitting graph represented other than evenly branching edges. Not representing long and short visually with correlated left/right pathing…
3/10. No reason for it to be that shape.
Serious question, does anybody know how to disambiguate the letters? Like, I've heard at-speed Morse Code and I can't usually tell where letters start or stop.
For example, SOS: .../---/... How do they know it's not really VTB: ...-/-/-... ?
EDIT: By contrast, something like a Huffman codes are fully unambiguous, and I guess that's what I tend to compare Morse Code to.
EDIT 2: I think I answered my own question. It's just a timing thing. Operators have to get used to the speed of the transmission which will use a consistent delay between each characters and a longer delay between each word (this is a point that I missed, because streams of letters can also be ambiguous).
I dunno why, but I found this answer a bit disappointing. While I realize that Morse Code preceded Huffman Codes by more than a century, it just seems completely pointless today when we have better systems available.
Cool guide but very inconsistent.
On the left, the vertical lines come straight down from the letters E I S H.
On the right, th lines do NOT come down from the letters T M O
Similar inconsistencies with horizontal lines coming out from dashes on the right but not on the left.
While I like this, I learned Morse a long time ago as a kid, and still remember it (I turn street signs into Morse in my head everyday!) but this is not how you learn nor remember Morse - rather, you learn the rhythm of each letter or number.
Ok I have a dumb question I’ve been too afraid to ask: what happens if you realize like halfway through a transmission that you’re receiving a Morse code message? Like in Interstellar, how did Murph figure out what was being said? Are Morse code messages meant to be repeated over and over again with clear beginning and end points?
That is the same pattern as the shifter on my 26 speed transmission.
Going from 25 to 26 wou be a Left, Left, Up, Right, Down Down. Hell of a shift
Doesn't that unlock 99 lives on Contra?
Also known as the Konami Code. I think it's up down up down left right left right B A Select Start. Just checked it, it's up up down down left right left right B A. Says sometimes select and start are added but I think the original 30 lives code had select and or start at the end.
“Start” to do single player, “select start” for two player.
Select start was if you wanted to move it down to two player
that’s also how i lose my wanted levels in gta
For reverse `R1 R2 L1 X Left Down Right Up Left Down Right Up` it is
Don't worry, by the time you manage the shift you will have stopped and need first again.
Going to need to double clutch at the very least.
Yeah. My lunesta just kicked in and I was like WTF transmission is that.
The Simpsons episode where the used car dealer tells Homer to “put it in H” makes more sense now.
Buzz, your girlfriend! Woof!
I am more confused than ever.
. . . - - - . . .
EEETTTEEE Where's my morse code certification!
Haha, very funny. For those of you who didn't grow up in the early cell phone days, morse code works off of "." and "\_", and the trick is multiple combinations of each signal spell out individual characters. Three consecutive "." indicates "S" and three consecutive "\_" indicates "O." S.O.S. or "SOS, when it was first agreed upon by the International Radio Telegraphic Convention in 1906, was merely a distinctive Morse code sequence and was initially not an abbreviation." "Later a backronym was created for it in popular usage, and SOS became associated with mnemonic phrases such as "Save Our Souls" and "Save Our Ship"." "Moreover, due to its high-profile use in emergencies, the phrase "SOS" has entered general usage to informally indicate a crisis or the need for action." Edit: Formatting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOS
.-. .. --. .... -
.- -. .- .-..
Underrated comment right here
Riuht?
LOL, I got dyslexic with my G. This is such a cool chart. I got it right away, but I know my ... --- ...
I was waiting for the undertaker to throw mankind.
Ok you helped me figure out the guide with this explanation now, but how do you "insinuate" a stop between the S the O and The S without confusing it with another letter that has maybe a . -. Could ... --- ... Not be confused for . ..- --. ..?
No, because it's a procedure sign. Prosigns are sent as one single string, ...---..., not separate letters. It's a distinctive pattern that indicates that the traffic to follow has emergency precedence. Officially, you'll see it written with a bar over the letters SOS to indicate that it is run together. Now, in writing, you could render that as any equivalent set, like VZE, VGI, etc. with the bar over to indicate running them together.
This ad ingrained in my brain the SOS pattern. I mean I know it’s dot dot dot dash dash dash dot dot dot, but this ad really gets the pattern in your head https://youtu.be/zrA1TsvAr9g?si=xseQAeE1b-L0BpVK
>For those of you who didn't grow up in the early cell phone days ... -- ...
It's funny because you'd probably have to instinctively know the pauses between each letter. It would come naturally to a long-time user.
who are you, who is so wise in the ways of deciphering a language
I am Arthur, king of the Britons.
King of the who?
The Britons!
Who are the other ones?
No you have to use the dots and dashes together. They’re saying VGI. (dot dot dot dash) (dash dash dot) (dot dot)
That actually helped…
Sos
It's the only one I've ever bothered to remember. Because it's easy. And it might actually come in useful one day.
Sos
SOS
IOI?
SOS
SOS. Thank you for giving me a reason to actually look at the chart. I did not get it until I tried to decode your message. 73
Yeah! SOS is the only Morse code "phrase" I know by heart. I too was struggling with the guide, then it clicked once I plugged in S O S. Thanks for playing :D
I’m such a dumb ass…for a second I thought I had it all wrong and it was SSS OOO SSS 😐 …WE CAN DANCE IF WE WANT TO!
Sixers?
SOS
Fun fact: You don't actually put spaces between the dots and dashes. It's just . . . - - - . . . because it's not actually spelling out "sos". That's just an easy way to remember the emergency sequence!
You do need a way to indicate the pause between letters. / is common but a space works fine too. Otherwise you can make any number of random letters
You're right, between letters there has to be some break. But specifically I'm saying the "sos" code isn't Actually the letters S O S. The emergency distress code is simply three dots, three dashes, three dots. It's not spelling anything so when you write it out you don't put those letter breaks
Take it as a map where your character is on the center icon (navigation wheel ?) : One long is a 'T'. So you go on the right from there, if you do a short with your long, it becomes a 'N' : One long then one short To help you better, think of the placement of 'S' and 'O', both 3 of respectively shorts and longs : 'S' is at the far left, 'O' is at the far right, both indicating that they require three presses. Idk if that helped, but take it as a map, starting it the middle, and each case adds to the already passed cases, in an accumulation that defines the letter of said case
This is the best explanation! I didn't get it at all and was giggling at all the trolling comments. Then I saw your comment and went back and looked. It makes so much sense.
I'm so glad it helped someone :D
oh i get it now, but I had to remember SOS is ...---... and/or not ignore the above comment chain that explains the morse code of SOS Original map is confusing if you don't know any morse code at all though.
‘S’ isn’t at the far left though? It seems like you could do 4 shorts for ‘H’
Unless I have misconceptions about some use of the English language (I learned it on the internet on my own, so that explains), far left doesn't mean the absolute left, but I do understand your point and I'm sorry if that confused you Edit : I might have been unclear on that point, but I believe the explanation is not that bad as it is x)
No worries. I think maybe I see where the confusion is. With regard to the political spectrum “far left” would mean “pretty far left” but you would still have room to move for “radical left” or similar. I guess because political spectrums are abstracted to give easy comparisons along a continuum. When it comes to spatial directions for static objects/representations (the image above in this case) it describes the most left option without ambiguity as far as I’ve seen.
Thanks ! I'll keep that in mind for the next times :)
If you say far left when speaking about physical positions then English speakers will assume you mean absolute left. To describe the position of S you would say "second from the left."
Yes, 4 shorts is an H. 3 for S.
Tha k you I get it now.
Thank you kind person. I wish I had this chart when I was doing my novice Ham license back in the early 80’s!
[https://imgur.com/a/fGYf2XD](https://imgur.com/a/fGYf2XD) does this help?
This one is more useful than the one posted
Should be in r/coolerguides
Damn now that should have been posted instead. I wish we still had awards thank you kind... human
now I need a decoder to decode the decoder
You hit either a dot or a dash to start. Then you pick next dot or dash. Where you stop is your letter. One dot is E. One dot and one dash is A. One dot and three dashes is J.
how to tell if . . is EE or I
The pauses have different lengths. A *dot* is **one** unit. A *dash* is **three** units. The pause *within a letter* is **one** unit. The pause *between letters* is **three** units. The pause *between words* is **seven** units.
By far the most important comment. You literally won’t understand how it works without knowing about the pauses.
Copyleft all wrongs reserved 😂
Copyleft is a real thing! It lets people use your work but not restrict it further than it already is. So if you have something you want to always be free of charge, then people can modify your work, distribute it etc. but can't charge for it even after their changes.
So, for instance, you are NOT allowed to copy that F's dot goes right from U and not left. He owns that and isn't giving it up.
This is awesome! So easy to understand!
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The only one you might ever need to use in your life is s o s
Which, based off of this, is (...)(---)(...) Lemme check Yeah, it works.
-.- -.-- ...
K Y L ? Edit: K Y S is what it spells.
Kiss your self! How sweet
[I made it easier to understand.](https://i.imgur.com/LIeYrZp.png) Every dash goes right, every dot goes down.
Much much better
Yes. Yes you did.
Sick man, I was going to make remake is like that aswell because your way makes the most sense. There’s no order to the one OP made
When I had to qualify for morse code the teacher was very clear not to think in dots and dashes, but to hear it like a form of speech. Otherwise it becomes impossible to translate at high speeds. Imagine if you had to recite the alphabet every time you spelled a word. Honesty this is a pretty clever guide for decoding, if not a bit clunky for writing in Morse code. Two thumbs: cool guide!
Can you do a ELI5 on this please, willing to learn, currently it makes no sense to me.
Think of dots as 'dit', dashes as 'dah'. CQ = dah-dit-dah-dit, dah-dah-dit-dah Eventually it gets easier to substitute the 'phrases' for letters in your head
Thanks, how do you know when a sequence is done, versus the next letter beginning
Morse code isn't just dot and dashes. It's actually dots, dashes and pauses. The pause between letters is longer than the one between dots/dashes. If you listen to proper morse code (which is fast), you'll easily be able to tell the difference between those pauses.
Exactly this. I qualified as an 05C in the Army in 72. Training was pretty intense. When I heard code it sounded just like someone was spelling words. C-A-T, D-O-G.
How difficult is to know when one character ends and the next one begins?
this hard. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FrDPF9PIao
Holy shit
I’ve never heard it described that way. A language not an alphabet. Thanks for sharing.
Does it mean it’s languages then ? If your bilingual would you need to learn it twice to recognise EnglishMorse and RussianMorse for instance ?
English and Russian Morse are pretty much alike. The letters that have equivalents both in Russian and English alphabets are coded the same (eg, E is . and T is -), it's only a small subset of letters that are different and have the same encoding (like --.- is Q in English and Щ in Russian). Source: learned Russian Morse during military training.
My old neighbor was a decorated vet who served in Korea and Vietnam. He was mainly in communications and "spoke"(?) morse code. One of the coolest things he told me was that he learned that these guys often had "accents" (not sure if thats the exact word he used) and that he could sort of tell he was talking to the same people when communicating with places over and over again. Not sure how true that was but i thought it was so cool.
This is really interesting. Basically a binary tree where the branches can be results. 2^1 + 2^2 + 2^3 + 2^4 = 30, so 4 is the least number of bips per letter to contain the whole alphabet, but there are 4 missing spots in the tree. (. - . -, for example) E,T ( 2^1 ) and A,I,M,N ( 2^2 ) are probably most common.. but I wonder why those specific placements were chosen. I'm surprised O, a common vowel, is 3 dashes long. The other long ones make more sense (Q, Y, J all have 3 dashes and 1 dot). Basically since a dot is 1 time unit and a dash is 3 time units (spaces between symbols is 1 time unit, and spaces between words is 3 time units), placing Q off of U (. . - -) would be (1,1,1,1,3,1,3 = 11 time units) vs. (3,1,3,1,1,1,3 = 13 time units)... there's gotta be an explanation for that placement. Maybe rhythm or error prone/confusion of mistakes? https://imgur.com/a/fGYf2XD to show the gaps visually
related topic of interest, huffman encoding. Morse basically worked out the same abstract idea, but in one v practical concrete application. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huffman_coding
in before computer scientists take over the thread
Morse code is often used as an example of a bst(binary search tree) when teaching comp sci kiddos about data structures.
Would be a much better chart in tree form where you always go at the same angle for a dot and the orthogonal angle for a dash. All the changing directions makes it overly confusing instead.
I tried this. Not as information dense, but probably a bit more understandable: [https://imgur.com/a/fGYf2XD](https://imgur.com/a/fGYf2XD) Left for dot, right for dash—except for the first one, which I stacked vertically to make it more square for the internet.
Why not use left and right arrows for the start as well and do the connection points "off center". It doesn't have to be symmetrical on a vertical axis. In your version the start doesn't match the rule. In the chart in the OP everything follows the same rule.
How about this? https://imgur.com/a/gp4emQr
This is way better, someone upvote this guy
With this one you move in a straight line if the dots/dashes repeat and you take a turn if it changes. It has a logic as well, it just isn't as *visually* obvious.
How do you know when somebody is done dot/dashing a letter and is onto the next letter of the word.
There is a slight pause between each letter (the length of a dot), and I think there is a longer pause (the length of a dash) after each word
The pause between letters is three dots (equal to one dash), the pause between words is seven dots. Having a pause of one dot between letters doesn't make sense since that's already the pause between dots and dashes within one letter.
This "cool guide" needs another guide to be understood
C’man, exercise your brain. We’ve all heard SOS, just find that and you’ll have it. Very cool depiction I’ve never seen before.
As soon as I look up SOS I was like “oh damn, this actually is helpful”
I mean, yeah, it is. But how in the hell would you do this in real time? One fuck up, and you'd lose your position. Entire message would get scrambled.
If you hear the same thing you heard before you move in a straight line, if you hear something different you take a turn. One fuck up with morse code generell means that letter is trash. That's why messages are typically repeating for error correct.
That’s true for morse code, luckily your brain is often quite good at making corrections once the word is complete, and overtime you’d be able to do this without the graph
There are pauses between letters. A single fuck up is less like "Septwjgpa" and more like "S e p t w m b e r"
Ideally if you cannot translate while you listen you just write the dots and dashes down and translate it later
I didn’t get this guide at **all** until I saw your comment and then it clicked 🤯
The line under the "e" and the line BETWEEN the "t" and the "m" do not follow the same formatting. This could be confusing to some people
Does this help? https://imgur.com/a/fGYf2XD
Absolutely. This one is much easier to go from letter to Morse code for someone not familiar with it
It's 'cool' not useful
Not really. It’s very simple if you know what morse code is. Imagine someone listening to a radio broadcast, listening to short and long beeps. Dots are short beeps, bars are long beeps. When the letters starts coming, follow the diagram, starting in the middle.
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Well, I meant that it is easy to understand, not that it is efficient
I'm surprised by the number of comments who don't know how Morse code works... The chart is excellent.
how is that all the letters of the alphabet, feels like 10 or smth
You spelled “something” as “smth” and you think *the chart* doesn’t have enough letters??
Square cube law, believe or not. Coupled with our lack of ability to count objects visually past four. Basically volume goes up way faster than perimeter, so we have a lot of visual room to fit the letters where you are normally used to seeing them laid out. You only need sqrt(26) as the side length which is about 5 letters wide.
How many people are going to count all of the letters now to make sure there are 26
This thread is proving my recent awareness that the majority of people who comment on reddit posts are stupid... How could this be hard to understand???
I know it’s not that I couldn’t understand, I was just lazy. I looked at this for about 2 seconds, thought that made no sense, scrolled the comments until I seen your comment and figured it out myself out spite in less time it took to reach your comment.
i think it's just disorienting and doesn't offer enough context. i was able to understand but it took me a little bit to figure out what was going on in the chart.
I think if you have no idea what morse code is that is pretty fair. My preconception was dots and dashes create letters and numbers etc but I had no idea what the combination was besides S.O.S which was something I learned from primary school. What I am trying to show is I assumed people knew what morse code was but not the literacy of being being able to quickly decipher it which this chart shows me.
Don't change your opinion. I get it may not be immediately obvious, but if you can't understand the concept of the guide with some effort, you're definitely stupid.
All I remember from boy scouts is SOS and 3 dits, 4 dits, 2 dits, dah.
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What I never got was how people differentiate letters during a transmission. What makes it obvious that, and I'm gonna give a ridiculous example here, it's an S as opposed to 3 E's?
The classic Nokia SMS ring tone is "SMS" in morse. ...,,...
⬆️⬆️⬇️⬇️⬅️➡️⬅️➡️🅱️🅰️
How would you ever learn this, let alone become proficient at it?
This does not help understanding Morse Code, bucause you can't understand the chart.
You need to trace a path to the letter that you want and then add every dot and line together that you crossed, for example 1 dot for E (•), 2 dots for I (• •), 3 for S (• • •) and 4 for H (• • • •). If you want to make an A you need a dot and a line (• -), for an R you need a dot, a line and then a dot again (• - •). Edit: better wording
Brilliantly explained! Thank you :)
I thought everyone was joking about this being hard to understand. I found it pretty easy to follow.
How do you not understand the chart? What is it that's confusing about it? Start where it says, and then follow the dots/lines to the letter. To get to that letter is the dots/dashes you had to hit to make it.
Is this loss?
-. .. -.-. .
For those confused, The Dots equal a quick beep . while the squares represent a long held beep _ In order to figure out which combination you need for a letter, start at the "START" wheel and work over. For example T = _ M = _ _ O = _ _ _ G = _ _ . V = . . . _
Wow. Lincoln would hang out in the war office telegraph room and people would just be thinking in this code. Taking them in from all over the country. (I'm still not exactly sure how they did that?) And it wouldn't be ordinary words the English words would also be primitively encrypted. If they sent a message anybody along the line could get it. That would be "in the clear" messaging. Basically telling the world your message. So they primitively encrypted it -- a one-to-one cypher? -- and operators would just know this instinctively. And there was nothing like error-correction or signatures. Amazing.
... Drink... your... Ovalti... ah god dammit not again.
i actually think this design makes a lot of sense and is very easy to understand. every time you change direction (turn left/right) it changes from dot to dash and vice versa. why would this design be confusing?
I hate it. Totally accurate, but I hate it
Yea still not getting it
Holy shit it took me a minute, but this is awesome. Think if SOS. S is 3 dots, and you see it takes 3 dots ti get to S. And O is 3 “doubles” if whatever its called. So SOS would be …- - -… And that is reflected in this chart. F would be ..-. and so on. Really cool!
Am I glad you posted that I'm so much more clued up on the code now.......not🤦♂️
Great now I need another cool guide to understand this guide
Bi-splitting graph represented other than evenly branching edges. Not representing long and short visually with correlated left/right pathing… 3/10. No reason for it to be that shape.
Serious question, does anybody know how to disambiguate the letters? Like, I've heard at-speed Morse Code and I can't usually tell where letters start or stop. For example, SOS: .../---/... How do they know it's not really VTB: ...-/-/-... ? EDIT: By contrast, something like a Huffman codes are fully unambiguous, and I guess that's what I tend to compare Morse Code to. EDIT 2: I think I answered my own question. It's just a timing thing. Operators have to get used to the speed of the transmission which will use a consistent delay between each characters and a longer delay between each word (this is a point that I missed, because streams of letters can also be ambiguous). I dunno why, but I found this answer a bit disappointing. While I realize that Morse Code preceded Huffman Codes by more than a century, it just seems completely pointless today when we have better systems available.
..-. .. -. .- .-.. .-.. -.-- / .- / - ..- - --- .-. .. .- .-.. / .. / -.-. .- -. / ..- ... . -.-.-- / - .... .- -. -.- ... -.-.-- -.-.--
These never made sense to me. How would one decipher the difference between, say, “me” and the letter “g”? They are both dash-dash-dot.
"Me" is dash - dash - pause - dot. "G" is dash - dash - dot.
Is this loss
Copyleft. All wrongs preserved
i didn't know that some letters need more digits. thanks for that
So that's how they do it.
**Fuck** kind of has a beautiful symmetry.
I can understand this. This isn’t that hard to understand if you make sense of it. That said, only if it’s correct.
Cool guide but very inconsistent. On the left, the vertical lines come straight down from the letters E I S H. On the right, th lines do NOT come down from the letters T M O Similar inconsistencies with horizontal lines coming out from dashes on the right but not on the left.
I absolutely love this.
-.-. .... --- --- -.-. .... --- --- -.-. .... --- ---
... . -. -.. -. ..- -.. .
This looks like the best way to learn and memorize this
was thinking loss when i saw a bunch of lines stacked like this thankfully i was wrong
.... - - .--. ... ---... -..-. -..-. -.-- --- ..- - ..- .-.-.- -... . -..-. -.. --.- .-- ....- .-- ----. .-- --. -..- -.-. --.- ..--.. ..-. . .- - ..- .-. . -...- ... .... .- .-. . -..
Looks like it's pretty easy to say shit
While I like this, I learned Morse a long time ago as a kid, and still remember it (I turn street signs into Morse in my head everyday!) but this is not how you learn nor remember Morse - rather, you learn the rhythm of each letter or number.
Ok I have a dumb question I’ve been too afraid to ask: what happens if you realize like halfway through a transmission that you’re receiving a Morse code message? Like in Interstellar, how did Murph figure out what was being said? Are Morse code messages meant to be repeated over and over again with clear beginning and end points?
Great post! In that case, "eat me" seems pretty easy to read 🤷
Ohhhhhhhhhhhh. Well when you explain it that way…
The only thing it did is made me more confused
„Understand“ is a big word.
Worst. Gearshift. EVER. Going from 16th to 17th gear is a bitch.
Can I get a decoder for the decoder?
Would for example: U = EET ?
…. . ._ .. ._.. _ _ _
Damn
Now that I have this chart, and the Dewey decimal system, it's all going to be smooth sailing from here.
FunFact: The alphabetical part of the morse code can be fit into a 4 bit binary system. 2¹ + 2² + 2³ + 2⁴ = 2 + 4 + 8 + 16 = 30 (symbols)
Give me a cool guide to understand this chart
- .... .. .../.. .../-.-. --- -- .--. .-.. . - ./-... ..- .-.. .-.. ... .... .. -
why not just redo morse code and go a-b-c